To set up your shoe repair shop on less than a square meter in the middle of the sidewalk while pedestrians squeeze themselves past you, requires a high degree of professionality. Knowing how to bundle your shoe soles in different sizes, where to keep the yarn and glue so you can access it readily. We see hundreds of ways in which men, women and children, in small places or moving in between cars, busses and rickshaws, run their own businesses. Very inventive, and although the streets are full of waste, a lot of it gets recycled. It is a true University of Life.

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Walking along the ‘Beribandh’ or the city embankment is an experience to see many things such as tanneries, slums, motor-workshops, waste-recycling shops, expansion of the city etc. What welcome you… Adnan Wahid –
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Used household appliances like Fridge , Television etc. are collected and repair at this shops. Self trained technicians are involved with this small enterprises . This repaired home appliances are consumed by… Arifur Rahman –
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The children in the urban city are forced to join workforce for their survival instead of going to school. The primary school drop outs picked up working in the bakeries… Sumana Tanchangya –
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Rafique Uddin runs his little tea-shop in a slum that stands near the ‘Beribandh’, the embankment to protect the city of Dhaka from possible flood of the River Buriganga. Besides… Adnan Wahid –
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